Im gonna take the low odds. I say, by evening tomorrow, after we have seen this thing in a live-pre-recorded fight on POI, people are going to change thier minds about traps.
I dont think Anet would really see the traps of Thief and Ranger, know how people generally feel about them and decide “You know these Elite Specs? give them something just like those ones. Yeah just make them more light themed. That will do”
These traps are going to be amazing.
Your not. People were just a little blind sided by the idea and traps. In time no one will care about the name. Or the traps.
It just goes to show you that Anet is willing to really change up how a class plays, so in the future we might need to widen our ideas as to what rolls class can fill.
How about: Drachenjager
Dragonhunter… eh? Ok.. is this a joke?
Weapon – Longbow
Skills – TrapsWeapon Skills
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Bow has a focus of firing single, large projectiles .Symbol of Energy – Fires an arrow into an area granting Vigor to allies.
Deflecting Shot – Destroys projectiles in its path.Traps
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Heal Trap – Heals for a small amount when placed. Heals for a large amount, as well as applying Blind when triggered.Where is the damage to kill a dragon? Wait… are we talking about zhaitanesque fights? Why not just call it a paragon as it is indeed a Paragon 2.0?
Let’s wait and see if this specialization gets better as more details are revealed/polished.
Damage? For all we know the base Auto Attack does 4,000 damage with a base critical hit chance of 120% All the video showed were lights and effecets
Just remember, its not all about boosting a class, its about giving them what they didn’t have much of before. Lets look at the things they showed in that regard:
Wings of Resolve: A more malleable ‘chase’ skill. Arguably this might be more of a PVP thing. But the only other chase skill the guardian has is Leap of Faith. Which is great and all, but sort of locks you in to greatsword. With Wings of Resolve you can either have a leap heal, or a leap damage regardless of the weapon.
Video Mark 30: What is this skill? It looks like some sort of ranged mark. Its in the monsters face, maybe its blind. But it’s got crossed swords indicating damage perhaps? Is this a new DOT, or what? They said its backlines support so maybe its boosts other players something.
Symbol of Flames (name made up): Video 34. Looks like a ranged weapon based Purifying Flames. Burn the enemy cleanse allies, all from the safety of your own home? Sounds great.
VIP Section: Video 40. Notice how the Guardian does the Ranger style Pinning Volley, rain from above, but it makes alittle gate around them? How great is that going to be. Keep them in one spot. Seems like a great skill to have to help all the other classes with their skill-shot and targeted aoe’s
Im excited. Cant wait for tomorrow when they show what the traps do in more specifics
Forget the player class. What was that big monster? I loved that thing. Show us more of that tomorrow. It looked like a mash up of a bunch of different dinosaurs. Its the biggest non-boss monster i’ve ever seen!
Everything you’d want to Crit on in PVE cant be crit on anyway. So why bother?
Avenger
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Trademarked, and only in plural, when refering to a team. The word it self is fair game
Yes
All elite spec will get 6-0, 1 heal 4 utility and 1 elite.
1h will get get a new 1-3
2h will get a new 1-5
and off hand will get a new 4-5
As far as I am aware they will all be roughly equal in terms of game-changiness
With the rewind feature it gets you can litteraly do the time warp, then do the time warp again
Come on. The awesomeness is right there. You just gotta animate it and attach it to the spec! Its not even that hard of a dance, the steps are in the lyrics
Skill 1: A three attack chain, rainbow themes. Red Arrow, causes Burning, White Arrow, Causes Chill, Final Blue Arrows’; Three Arrow, low damage but healing allies caught in the arc.
Skill 2: Skill shot, One arrow in a line, pierces enemies, the more it pierces the higher the damage ( so like, 100 damage first enemy, 150 the next, 200.. etc etc) delayed explosion causing blindness
Skill 3: Symbol of Hope/Symbol of Dispair, creates a symbol that pulses Aegis to Allies, Cast again to detonate all Aegis’ in symbol radius
Skill 4: (Something that’s the opposite of Infiltraitor’s Arrow) Shadowstep an enemy to you and taunt it
Skill 5: TBD
I belive it is a play on the term: Gravity Well
From Wiki: A gravity well or gravitational well is a conceptual model of the gravitational field surrounding a body in space – the more massive the body, the deeper and more extensive the gravity well associated with it. The Sun is very massive, relative to other bodies in the Solar System, so the corresponding gravity well that surrounds it appears “deep” and far-reaching.
Well since we only know the name of one other Elite Spec im gonna go with:
Justicemancer
I dont doubt that, in Maguuma at least, there will be enemies who flat out reflect projectiles.
IF you watch the Chronomancer POI when they talk about the quill thrower, and they mention how some enemies, take less direct damage so they are better to be Condi’d,— some will no doubt he anti range, or anti melee
As a class who’s only ranged option was scepter. I think alot of guardians are happy
Randomness: If you roll a 1d100 you have a 1 in one hundred chance in getting any given number. Lets say Portal Drop is in a 100. What are the odds that you will consecutivly roll a non-100? I can tell you there just the same odds—in a true random system— of ONLY rolling 100s
How can you feel cheated? Its not like any other players have any other advantage in getting them. If they did they would be cheating. If Anet decided “only people who have played for x number of hours can get them” the people who don’t have that would be cheated.
This is the ONLY fair way. We need to move on
What would you have wanted?
I did not mean in the… because yes..well.. all…except..
Hey look they announced a new elite spec!
/shadowstep
The picture also shows them using it two handed. Which while is not 100% proof, it is an indication that its a ‘two-handed- bow’
Aside from gaining all the extra hero points:
- You gain rewards based on the level of the map, so some will give you two exotic weapons
- You will have all the Waypoitns for future living world/ event travel
- It is still needed should you get a precursors…
*…. and since precursors are going to be a collection it will be easier to make a legendary once the expac comes out
The RNG is the only thing. It is the sun. It is the moon. With out it there is nothing. If it has one flaw it is that it is too fair.
Its not just reduced fall damage though. For example, the elemental one does various rings and waves.
For all we know it will be common in Maguuma to glide and drop in on enemies from a great height. And it would be more welcome to drop in and blow up a ring of fire, or muddy terrain, or a symbol of protection, then to gain vigor on critical (though arguably maybe not as good as Arcane skills 20% recharge reduction)
Fall Damage Reduction mastery does make sense now that we will be gliding around. But then thats also a good case for it being a trait. In the base game its a fun little throw away for when you want to cut some corners when running about. Now, when your gliding past 6 wyvrens and you run out of glide-juice, its a tactical strategy to slot it
I’m really confused. This is not the only thread wherein i’ve seen someone say in essense:
“When you have Trait X on, it makes you want to use Skill A, and thus have no reason to use Skill B, which is boosted by Trait Y”
Traits INTRINSICLY reduce build possibility, because they focus you.
They have said, somewhere, in some interview, that they have made the HoT story missions be a little more favorable to the player character. So I think youll get your wish. People will acknowledge our work
Other than Treherne being a Sylvari, what major role did the whole of the race play in the downfall of Zhaitan?
Prof. / Spec./ Weapon/Skill Type
Warriors/ Paragon/ Staff/ Phantasms
Guardian/ Seraphim/ Long Bow/ Spirits
Necromancer/ Reaver/ Great Sword/ Shouts
Mesmer/ Chronomancer/ Shield/ Wells
Elementalist/ Tempest/ Sword/ Traps
Thief/Tumbler/ Staff / StanceSniper/ Rifles / Meditations
Engineer/ Demolitioner/ Hammer/ Minions
Ranger/ Druid/ Staff/ Arcane
Fixed one thing :P
It should also be noted that, multiple portal drops on one account would not effect anets idea number. Its not like, if there were 5 spots, and I got 4 portals, and one random person got 1, that it would just be me and them in the beta.
Example 2: Earth’s embrace – elementalist earth adept
The problem with this trait is that it happens on passing a percentage of hp. That means that i as a casual player and people watching the game at an arbitrary moment of time will see an explosion of particle effects, and then a new countdown will go off, that prevents this from happening, but we dont have any way to see this cooldown going off.
The solution might be to make the trait like this:
on 25% of hp recharge equipped earth utility skill with maximum recharge time left. Cooldown 60 seconds.
Magnetic shield, Earth’s armor, earth signet.
It is not the best, since it happens at an arbitrary moment, but it is already better than what is now, and it is by default will have a place to show the recharge time – on the tooltip of equipped earth skills.
Arbitrary, you keep using that word but im not sure you know what it means. Arbitrary means that it happens for no specific reason at all. Every trait specificly outlines when it will happen. For example: “Chance to Cause Blindness” is that was the whole text of a trait, then it would truly be an arbitrary condition. It just happens when the game wants it too. “When you drop below 25% health” “When you Critical” “When you Evade” these are all finite, definitive events that you can watch for.
There is no solution to your precised problem. of “I want to use X trait, but dont want to use Y weapon or skill.” Even in your vigorous shout example, if you want to have vigorus shout but want to use great swords, you don’t get it. So why not just make the trait “Using any weapons gives you the vigorous shout buff”
I’m not trying to sound salty, but every trait is designed to focus a class, and they do a good job at that. If every class could use all of its traits at once, every warrior would be the same, every necromancer would be the same, ever mesmer would be the same, every…. etc etc
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I doubt Anet will be at E3. As far as I remember Anet has only once been to E3 and that was before GW1 was even released. Anet will be at gamescom though.
http://mk02jm307.mapyourshow.com/6_0/exhibitor/exhibitor-details.cfm?ExhID=are7919
They will be at e3 if I read this the right way
This is not grinding to me. Grinding is spending several hours doing one or two activities to get a small amount of reward, over and over and over, till you can turn that small amount of reward into one large one.
What if, instead of calling it a dropped item, Anet just said “While playing in Maguuma a happy little quaggan npc may spawn near your character and invite you to join the beta”
Same exact mechanic, but now its feels like Willi Quaggan and the Beta Factory, and everyone would be dancing naked in Lions arch when it happens to them.
This is only a problem is one thing is true: Elite = Better
If the ONE Tempest line, traits, skills, is better then ANY combination of Core Skills, then problems will arise. So far I have see nothing that says Elite Specs’ will be Better, just different.
They might just open up new styles of play for classes. Maybe Tempest if a Crowd Control spec. It will still get trounced by pure damage specs in pvp, and wvw. Wont be able to heal and defend as well as water/earth specs.
This is a minor, minor things, but since everything’s getting a polish with this expansion, why not fix some trivial stuff to.
Would it be possible to make it so that when you port to the [Sanctum Harbor Waypoint] in Lions arch, your character faces the mystic forge instead of… I don’t even know whats the other way.
I’m sure there are others who know what i’m talking about.
It sounds like, what you mean is, you want more gold sinks.
When the amount of gold being produced is greater than the amount being removed from circulation, the value gets inflated.
Right now what are the gold sinks in this game? Waypoints, TP tax and Salvage Kits.
Now, what are the ways someone can make 1g? Im not going to list them because alot of events grant 1 gold.
As you see the amount of gold a person needs to spend per adventure is much much lower than what you can make.
We just need a few more high-ticket gold sinks to fix inflation. A Pay-Per-Run Dungeon (with rewards for the cost), Mystery loot Boxes, I dont know, there are alot of ways you could do it
It might be a fever dream, but wouldn’t it be nice if you could craft ascended, or legendary armor, and basically slot your ideal set up? You want three stats worth of Healing Power? Boom you got it. Toughness Power and Condition Damage? Right this way sir!
The warrior says, Thiefs are better at stealth, weaken their stealth
The Thief say that rangers are better at a distance, make them fight closer
The Rangers say that the Necromancers get more pets then them, take them away
The Necromancers just sigh and take it
Since apparently blind will be able to deplete it as well as other CC skills to reach the same prescribed result for the mob (irregardless of what sort of CC was used) I propose calling it the “blind bar” or, more accurately, the “scripted event” bar
This is from the TenTonHammer Article: ArenaNet have also leveled the playing field when it comes to crowd control skills used against Defiance and added a specific value for each one. A Blind will remove less of the Breakbar than, say, a Stun or a Daze. That doesn’t mean weaker crowd control skills are useless, it just means crowd control skills now have a clearly visible worth against Champion and Legendary enemies.
So why do i keep seeing people say this about blind?
I guess in the sense that blind -will also deplete the bar- yes then thats true, in the same manner that a spoon can drain a bathtub, but id rather use a bucket
Whats the best part about salvaging? Getting Ecto, Ore, Wood and Cloth
Whats the worst part about salvaging? Getting Runes and Sigils
Now, i’m not saying runes and sigils are bad, i’m just saying when you are mass salvaging from a world boss run, or dungeon, your inventory can quickly fill up with runes and sigils. You could use a lower quality kit, but then you lose out on the higher chance to get materials from them.
Here are a few options I think we could do:
1) Make Runes and Sigils stowable like any other crafting material
Pro: Easily hit ‘Store All’ to free up inventory space
Con: You might get 250 very fast and run out of storage space
2) Make a Special Salvage kit
Pro: You could make several. One that sacrifices runes and sigil recovery for higher chance to get rare mats, or a kit that sacrifices material recovery for chance to salvage higher quality or quantities of runes and sigils.
Con: You loose recovering one or the other.
Thoughts?
Side Bar: Ascended runes and sigils? Legendary ones even?
I know you cant say anything specific, but surely aNet wouldn’t mind you feeding the hype flames so: On a scale of 1 to 10, how excited for HoT were you going in to the event and then how excited were you coming out of the event?
Your intent is pure, but it might destroy pick up groups. Imagine joining a group, then being inspected, only to be told “… your wearing 5/6 Berserker and 1 Sentinels piece? get out of here” then you get kicked.
I would support this if it just showed the cosmetic skins and dyes, and not the stats
Zap: Kiff, zoom in on that small section there..
Kiff: sighs Yes Captain.
Zap: Why is it all blurry
Kiff: That’s all the resolution we have, zooming in densest make it any clearer
Zap: whines It does on CSI: Miami
I am in a guild, most people aren’t they? My guild has two active members. We don’t really need any more, don’t necessarily want to go recruiting more. It works for us. What doens’t work for us really is that we cant upgrade our guild anymore because we need guild merit. To get guild merit you need those little blue ribbons. The problem with getting those is that the only way to get them at the start is through Guild bounties. Two people cant do a guild bounty.
I think it would be nice if there was a way for us to gain guild distinctions without needing to recruit new people. That or perhaps remove the distinction requirement for the ones two people could possibly do, like Guild Trek.
pfff hate to see anet abusing us like this. Getting a reviewer who barely played since the release to comment on the upcoming xpac, this just feels like the interviewer after the Xpac was announced. Not blaming Angry Joe for this, but it just looks like they were trying to seek another market mechanism to promote the Xpac more. If anet really cared about us they would send some expert players of pvp/pve/wvw to interview. There are alot of unsolved problems out there on the field, but this way it’s not beneficial in any way for our community…
The thing about players of the game is that, they often times are not the best for press or interviewing. Just go look at any post game or pre game show for any major sporting event. The players tend not to be the most eloquent, or even interesting. Nothing against pvp or wvw or even pve players of this game, but, your not a game reviewer. aNet is trying to spread the word and the excitement. What your decribing is a focus group, where they WANT to get critical feed back to change the system. You wouldnt send a games reviewer to a focus group any more then youd send your average joe (did you see what I did there?) gw2 player to spread the press of your game
From AJ’s thread (who will be at the event)
"" ’m really excited about the event empowered by you guys! The event will be on Tuesday and ill return on Wed, but most of the stuff will be embargoed for a tiny bit after. ""
Is the waypoint in the Charr area near the Guild Labyrinth ever be uncontested? also the one in lions Arch? Theres not a single mob event going there can Arena.net just make it disappear or removed if doesnt work?
Living World related
You sir, are in for a lot of responses in this thread
Spare Treherene….
Can we finally kill Caudecus? The guy is essentially a mustache twirling villain that Jena keeps over looking. Its about time we finally gave him Justice— Charr style